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LAMMERT BROS. C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.

AvoriSEKERS, AFFramnes

AND SURVEYSER,

-Public Auctions-

THE Undersigned, have essayén ineNEMO-

ON

WEDNESDAY 16th July, 1944,

commencing at 11. m

at their Sales Room Duddell Street

(For account of tho Concerned)...

6 Cases Printed, Marccrised

Handkerchiefs

4 Cases Press Buttons Torma -Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

on" SATURDAY, 19th July, 1984,

commencing at 11.30 am.

ab their Balos Rooms, Duddell Stroot,

A Quantity of Brandy, Whisky.

Hook, Liqueurs, etc., etc.,.. Terms-Cash on delivery,

LAMMERT BROS,, Auctioneer,

on

SATURDAY, July 18, 1891..

commeating at 19 Noon

At thoir Salon Room, Daddell Street Comprising:-

A Quantity of Office Requisites Comprising:-

Eiliciency Dush, Commercial Swal Safe, Steel Filiog Cabinsta. Stationary Cabinet, Storage Cabinet. Kardex Fila. Romeo Daplicator, Typewriters, etc.,

etc.,

. Also

3

Surveying Instruments. Business Levels, New-Modal- Transit Theodoiste,, Black Vi Scosmeier, Abal Oil Tester, etc., ots

" View from Friday the 18th., July

1924

...

"

Forms:--Cash on delivery,

LAMMERY BROS.

A wazimaaners."

Hongkong. 14th July, 1924. a

PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS

OF SALE

of a

VALUABLE LEASEHOLD

PROPERTY

situato and being

Rural Building Lot No 54 and Kellett

Lodge, No. 180, The Peak

aitosis thereon

to be sold under the instruction of

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The Execator of the will of the lion.

Mr. Arthur Rylands Lowe, deceased

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by

PUBLIC AUCTION,

WEDNESDAY, 23rd day of July '1924.

at 3 o clock p.m subject to a Roserve Price by

Menata, LAMMERT BROTHERS,

Anctiousers,

at their Auction Room,ia-Duddell St,

For further particulars and condition of sale apply to:-

Messrs. DEACONS, Soliciter for the Executor, 1. Des Virux Road, Central

W

or to

Assers LAMMERT BROS.,

The Anc ibner,

Daddell Street. Hongkong, 10th July, 1924.

UNCLAIMED

TELEGRAMS

THE GREAT NORTHERN TELE GRAPH COMPANY, LTD.

SANITARY EROINEXUS

MONUMENTA LYSTS D: 31. Wyndham Streck

(Oppovilo The Dairy Farm.)*

Tel, Central_No, 100,

JUST RECEIVED

A NEW STOCK OF

"IDEAL" BOILERS.

ESTIMATES FREE FOR HEATING, HOT & COLD WATER SYSTEM3, &- ALL SANITARY INSTALLATIONS.

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MONUMENTALISTS

ITALIAN

MARBLE AND HỎNGKONG GRANITE.

TO OWN OR SELECTED DESIGN,

ATTENTION! Philatelists and those interested

in

POSTAGE STAMPS

are cordially-invited to inspect at our-store

AN

W

HISTORICAL COLLECTION

of Hongkong Postage stamps specially arranged for VATICAN EXHIBITION. GRACA & CO., No. 10, Wyndham Street, Hongkong.

SHOEMAKERS.

Japanese Hand Made)

Every kind of FootwBBLE. MADE TO ORDER.

OHERRY & CO.,

8. D'AGUILAR STREET,

„Opposite Kaysmally &.in. Telephone Central No. 491 **Hongtong, March 20, 1914.

WHY BUY FOREIGN

MADE SUITOA› ES

When we sell Shangbri, Manufactured Suitcases?

They are Cheaper and More Durable.

CHAO CHEUNG TRUNK CO.

(Opposite Taumati Parry, Fraya)

The following unclaimed celograms

ASAHI BEER

Ar lying at the office of

The

Great Northern Telegraph Company Limited):

Sankyo, from Osaka,

Captain Rielkahla from Poking.

Chucayus, from Daires.

Angram Kuiwabli, trom Kobe.

E. V. JESSEN,

Superintendent.

dongkong, 3rd July, 1824.

CASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRAL ASIA & CHINA TELEGRAPH O.

List of unclaimed telegrams lying in

& Telegraph Offee, Hongkong,

Marcus, from Shangbei.

Matius Girnass ejo Elliot, from Chicago.

Propaganda, from Taipeh.

M. E. F. AIREY,

Suparintendent.

Hongkong. 10th July, 1924.

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Tricycle Icos.

THE CHINA MAIL.

Have you seen the flying ice- cream squad ? asks the Daily News. They scout the suburbs on box tricycles full of ice cream in bricks, brickettes and tubs. "Stop me and buy one!" says a notice on the front of the machine. "We sell thousands every day," one of the cyclists said. I take three or four pounds every day, and when the hot weather comes I shall be busier than ever."

Lahoj to Wembley..

Though few folk in this country know much, perhaps, of the Sultan of Lahej, now on his way to Wembly, he is a personage of some importance east of Suez, his little kingdom lying just northwest of Aden, which stronghold was at one time part of his dominions (says the Daily Chronicle. Situated in a rich basis, abundantly watered. Lahej does a big business well as in vegetables and fodder for the Aden market, the lucky, cultivators contriving to extract three crops a year from the amaz- ing fertile soil. The Sultan has a huge palace at Howta, the domes and cupolas of which are visible on a clear day from Aden-27 miles

away.

cotton, as

A Lighthouse Builder.

Red Indiana" "Pow-Wow.”

Two hundred yearsigo was born | Ten thousand American Indiane John Smeaton, an engineer, who held their first national "pow- erected his own monument in the wow" at Tulsa, Oklahoma. Never third Eddystone lighthouse (says since the "pale faces" landed on the Daily Chronicle.) Smeaton's } this side has there been such a genius was almost lost to the nation { formidable, gathering of red men. as his father, an attorney, was They arrived from all parts of the desirous that his son should follow country with their squaws and the law, but, fortunately John Smeaton was allowed to follow his natural bent, rising to eminence from the humble position of a mathematical instrument maker.. The Cecils and Hatfield.

papaoses, some rich and some poor, all wearing tribal garh. The Osages, made rich by oil, arrived in costly limousines. In the big peace conference the warriors and representatives of fast-diminishing races buried their hatchets and had a good time together. The New Cult.

TUESDAY JULY 15 1924

THE

HONGKONG

3

HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL:

FEAK HOTEL. Telegraphic Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG,” AND

tak Tel. Kowloon

SHANGHA

ASTOR HOUSE, HOTEL: PALACE HOTEL: GRAND HOTEL KALEE : MAJESTIC HOTEL. Talographie Address: "ĢENTRAL, SHANGHAL.”

HOTELS,

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel das Wagons.Lita, Ltd., Faking,'

TK PALACE HOTEL

There are not many places in England where it is so easy to Imagine oneself back in the spacious days” of Queen Elizabeth

Comment on the behaviour of and Machioness of Slisbury gave at the performances of the Old as Hatfield, where the Marquess undergraduates and their friends.__________ OUR ARMORANT EN EL SUTARTISTES DE PR an Elizabethan fête recently. The Vic Opera Company at Oxford was Palace close by Hatfeld House, made in the Isis, the Oxford which was old when the Tudors Univerity extended and beautified it, and is follows:

weekly review, ផន "Half the occupants still, although its great hall has been used as a stable, much as it was when James L. exchanged the

They magnificent Hatfield for the small Manor of Theobalds.

The Prince and Canada,

of reserved seats considered it necessary to arrive late. pushed, they remonstrated, they bought programmes and argued

over their change.

Rarely has

Mrs Rosita Forbes on Impressions. Oxford so disgraced itself. If we Asking Rosita Forbes, the travel-Cannot attain to the culture of the ler-author, about the books she Cut, at least let us try to

imitate its courtesy." would take on her holiday, I gathered that she never read any-Singular Insurance Case: thing about a country before visit If a man who robs another man ing it (says Sewell Stokes in T.P. of his wife's affections is killed by and Gassell's Weekly) "I like to get the deceived husband, can his heirs my impressions from inside fast claim the amount of the insurance not outside!" she said, One's Shopping in Mid-Ocean.

supolicy effected on his life? This. own first impression's art Shopping facilies similar to

very interesting point had to be important." those enjoyed by first-class passen-

settled by the eighth tribunal of gers on big Cunarders are now

The Seine. The insurance policy possible to third-class travellers. Unless something unforeseen was taken out against accidents, A kiosk is in operation in the should arise in the meantime, the and the question was put as to third-class quarters of the "Aqui Prince of Wales proposes to sail whether the insured had met his tania," which left Southampton for for Cahada early in September, to death by an accident. Counsel New York,-and-similar-kiosks-will- visit his, ranch, and will be absent for the lasurance company, which be installed in the "Berengaria," front, this country for about six had refused to pay the heirs the the "Mauretania," and other ships, weeks. There is some talk of amount of the policy, argued that A trained woman assistant is in at Prince Henry accompanying his it was not from an 'accident that tendance, and passengers can pur- elder brother (says the Star) if he the man had died, that he had met chase a large selection of articles can obtain the necessary leave from his death through his own fault in likely to be of use during theis military duties. Considerable that he had committed a 'repre- voyage. Confectionery, tobacco, improvements are being carried out hensible act which led to it. The books, magazines, postcards, pens, at the ranch, and a number of Court, however, thought otherwise. pencils, wool, sewing material, thoroughbred mares, and stallions It found that, though the man had small articles of wear, such as have been shipped from Liverpool, without any doubt, been guilty caps, hats, and canvas shoes, are The Prince's experiments in horse to be found in the stock of these breeding have proved most suc- new Atlantic ocean stores. "The King of Song."

cessful.

A Successful Prophet.

of what it called a "forbidden liaison," the cause of the accident could not be sought for is the motives which had caused death. The insurance company was there fore, ordered to pay the amount of the policy.

Joanna Southcott's Box.

of

that

W

A group of young posts, writers, and musicians, led by Mr. Osbert Mr Arnold Bennett, who is 57 Sitwell, Mr. Sacheveroll Sitwell, possesses the knack of utter and Miss Edith Sitwell, waited on ing true prophecies about hin Chaliapin, the great Russian singer, self. When he had, published at the Savoy Hotel recently to pay only one novel, "A Man from the The Joanna Southcott, move- homage to him. "We take the North," he told a friend he meant ment issued } letter which occasion of your all toc brief visit to make £5,000 a year by fiction, they have received in reply to a. to these shores," said Mr. Osbert relates the Star. Foften used to national petition sent by them on Sitwell, to lay this laurel wreath, say to my friends," Mr Bennett May 28 10 the Archbishop the classic emblem of your relates, as soon as I am free Canterbury. They state- supremacy, at your feet. You, sir, enough I shall go and live in copies of the petition were also are the King of Song, and we are Paris ..I doubt if I had any sent to the King, the Prime your faithful lieges." In replying genuine intention of going. But Minister, the Lord Chief Justice, Chaliapin was so anxious to express it was my habit to make such die and all the bishops. The Arch- bis appreciation that he spoke in forecasts and boasts; seemingly bishop's letter was as follows: three languages-Russian, French they convinced everybody burmy."I have your letter of May 28, and English Asked whether there self. I think now that something together with a printed statement were no English singers who might subconscious must have prompted about the petition which has reach- be honoured by Chelsea, Mr. them. They have all been justified ed Lambeta. I must repeat, what: Obser Sitwell replied that there by events. Thus, from the age of I have at least twenty

times na ont

who approached 25 and onwards I used to say, reasserted to yourself and others, Chaliapin. Both as an actor and snall marry at 40.

By amy strong view that the box you a singer he is supreme."

sheer accident. I did happen to possess, or somebody possesses, Holy Ground.

marry at 40,"

ought to be opened in order to get this controversy ended; but I have refused, and continue to refuse, "to Lon- summon twenty-four bishops to sit first impression is apt to be dis-doa and elsewhere of a Com-round and watch the procedure of appointing. It is less picturesque munist than Wells, more crowded and

was

of

Glastonbury is the birth-place Moscow Musings,

British Christianity. The

Naturally there is talk in

plot stimulated by opening the box. You will remem- Russian gold." It would be ber that I have expressed myself modern, but the stiff climb to the interesting to know exactly how again upon the subject, and I need top of Tor Hill soon gives us back much communion there is between not write it afresh. I can produce the Glastonbury of old. Standing the leader of avowed revolution scores of letters, if necessary, to there, we realise that this was, in this country and the followers show that I have honestly done of Lenin. As a matter of fact, 1

The island valley of Avilion; Where falls not hail, or rain, or

any snow,

Nor ever. wind blows loudly; but

Lit lies' Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with

orchard lawns

And bowery hollows, crown'd

with summer sea,

upon

that

"No. 3

Tel. Adärdes Falsob

11

(Threo minutes from Kowloon Forry Wharf & Raliway Station.) Entirely under English Management. Electric Light and Fans Thronghoat. Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge Bar & Billiard Rooms, Uarlyalted Calsine inder the parsons!

"supervision of the Proprietor Terms moderate. opecial torms to families on application to " J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietor.

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL.

Telegraphic address "ASTOR"

Telephone Central 170.

13, Queen's Road Central

A first class Hotel centrally located, large and airy rooms, completely renovated and refurnished. New Dining Room for Meals and la Carte. Excellent Cuisine. Monthly Tickets for Tifins and Dinners. Under entirely new Management.

For further particulars apply to

M. A. VAZ, Manager.

SOUTH CHINA RESTAURANT

·

CO., LTD.

CHINA BUILDING,

'Sth FLOOR

NOW OPEN,

The Finest Restaurant In Town

For Chinese Chow.

Afternoon Tea With The Finest Chinese Pastries Also Supplied

Cold Drinks Of Every Description übtainable At All Times.

Clubs Supplied At Short Notice.

ра

Telephone C, 4832.

OPEN DAILY FROM NOON TO MIDNIGHT.

THE HONGKONG GARAGE CO.

15 & 17. Queen's Road East (Opposite Daibutsu's) NEW CARS FOR SALE & HIRE Telophone C. 4006.

Expert Repairers. Painters and Overhaulers.

Cushion and Seat-Cover Manufacturers.

Top Rebuilders Prompt Service at Moderate Prices, Tires and Accessories for Sale, Managing Director, C. L. PUN.

J. H TANG,

Secretary..

COMBINATION FILM SALES

Once more the question of the HOME AR

DISTRIBUTORS OF

HIGH GRADE PHOTOPLAYS.

IMPORTERS & EXPORTER 9

No. 2, Queen's Road Central (Top Floor) HONGKONG.

二

KING EDWARD HOTEL

A

CENTRAL LOCATION

- LL ELECTRIC TRAMS-Pas Entranos, Kiso

trio Lifts, FALI And

D. M. ADDRIES.

MASSAGE

Mr. BHIMIDZU.

think, it will be found that nothing which I should regard as partlyY BE AN AU A IN AND AL 30. HOONE DEL BIG SEAN D

my part (short of acting in a way

money has reached this country meet the wishes of those, whoever much in the way of "supplies" of profane and partly fantastic) to except

some time

ago they be, who have control of the a mysterious Individual called oa box, or boxes, for my correspond. one of the Communist leaders and ents tell me that there are rival deposited with him a cash present boxes. You are quite at liberty to of something like $1,000. No There are other tors around us.explanation was given beyond a

publish this letter if you so desire." Weary-All, Chalice, St. Edmund's bald statement that the present was Finger-Prints For All ? The town lies in the valley, and to be used for "The Cause." It then, far as we can see, stretches all sounds very romantic and low moorland, once covered with wonderful, but beyond this, I registration of fingerprints of all water, only the high places stand fancy, nothing much happened to French.citizens is to the fore. The ing out as islands. On top of the support the bright hopes once built tor is a ruined tower, all that re-

the Third International, latest proposal is that registration mains of a little church of great Then it was imagined that, "The could be brought about if all antiquity. We go down the hill Day" was very near, and that electors' cards bore the owners' and seek the Abbey ruins, and we Buckingham Palace would soon fingerprints. It is further pro feel not only the thrill of romance, be used as a museum. Alast how posed that the Bertillon system but a great reverence, as we re-fatite it all looks.

should be applied to all demands member that Christ has been wor

for permits to conduct business or to shipped here from the early British

obtain railway privileges, leases, days. As Professor Freeman says "There was never a moment

marriage licences, or birth registra AT TEETHING TIME tions. If these suggestions were when men of any race bowed to. Woden in the Isle of Avalon." The

Your Baby Needs The Help

carried out half of the French same cannot be said even of his BABY'S OWN TABLETS GIVE. Population would have their finger prints registered. What, ap toric Canterbury; but the Saxons It is pitiful the suderings so muy parently, has revived this question did not reach Ynyswytryn until children enduro when the tooth of finger-printing is the difficulty they had accepted Christianity.own Taulets reaig at gand any parous experienced by the police in

now with Kabya suming" through, As we stand first upon the holy in ants to speedily alleviate the wath Identifying a large number of ground, trying to imagine whating pins and this bring, pose and com persons-the percentage is put at must have been the grandeur of fort to tire tortured tile one. Raad seventy-found

Agenta for;—ADMIRALTY CHARTS, murdered Bor those buildings before they fell this mother's prideuco:-

of Moureary, anituba.

drowned. This difficulty has into decay, a sories of pictures My baby was very ill whoa cutting moved the police to give their from the past come crowding upon his weath and grouty coubled wich

support to a general system of inflamed us, legend intermingling with his tooth-rash,

and mouth tory, in this the home of legend. nervousness", writes Mrs. W. Felham, inger-printing, and should this → He was idea be applied it may conceivably In imagination we see Joseph of unable to take food for two days owing cause a revolution of palice Arimathea and his twelve com-to ulcerated mouth, bus after giving his methods in other countries besides panions pausing to rest on Weary- Haby's own tablets the sole mouth 300n France. It is claimed that the All Hill, and Joseph thrusting his healed and his health improved in every adoption of the method would staff into the ground. Avaragus, | way. who rules underthe Roman viceroy,

Plany other mothers tell of similar ox result in thousands of offenders Baby's Own blots also wanted by the police for various sees that

they have journeyed Periences

have a remarkable record as a comody offences being discovered · At the | far andere of modest demeanour for us com lasts of fanta present momch the Ringer-prints, and so he allows them to seitle young children as simple favor, indiges of nearly 300,000. French citizens and gives to each of them d'hide | don, cousilpation, colle, vomiting,

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of land. We picture them building diarrhoes, soup, cold and worms. They are registered. It seems that these their little church of wood and faum, opiates, notice or ether Were arrested, and also from aiguaranteed salons, being absolutely were obtained when culprits wattles twisted in and out, on the injurious druge. Of chemists, or port identification cards, which were Every site of the Sne ruins of St. true, au cents the rim, from Dr Willian Instituted two years ago in order Joseph's Chapel-Fodden Tindall Medicine Co., Kings Road to facilitate (zavolling to European In the Sunday at Home!

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